Sports Media Roundtable: Linda Cohn leaves ESPN after 34 years; the World Cup heads to the knockout round, and the NYT's story on Dianna Russini episode artwork

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Sports Media Roundtable: Linda Cohn leaves ESPN after 34 years; the World Cup heads to the knockout round, and the NYT's story on Dianna Russini

from Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Episode 635 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features a roundtable with Jon Lewis, editor and founder of Sports Media Watch; Armand Broady, the co-host of the Sports Media Watch podcast and a contributor to SMW, and Derek Futterman, a multimedia writer and producer for Sports Media Watch. In this podcast we discuss Sports Media Watch's grades of the NBA's media partners after the first season of the league's new rights deal; Linda Cohn leaves ESPN 34 years and over 5,500 SportsCenter episodes; how high can World Cup viewership go; will the Caitlin Clark situation hurt WNBA interest and what is her viewership; Caitlin Clark and the culture wars; The New York Times story on Dianna Russini; our thoughts on why the NYT reporters published what they did; and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more.

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